[ Intro ]

Yeah
I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now
But hey, what daddy always tell you?
Straighten up little soldier
Stiffen up that upper lip
whatchu crying about?
You got me.

[ Verse 1 ]

Hailie, I know u miss your mom
And I know u miss your dad when I'm gone
But I'm tryin' to give u the life that I never had
I can see you sad
Even when you smile
Even when you laugh
I can see it in your eyes
Deep inside you wanna cry
Cuz you're scared
I ain't there,
Daddy's with you in your prayers
No more cryin'
Wipe them tears
Daddy's here
No more nightmares
We gonna pull together through it
We gonna do it
Lainie's uncle's crazy ain't he,yeah
But he loves you girl and you better know it
We're all we got in this world
When it spins
When it swirls
When it whirls
When it twirls
Two little beautiful girls
Lookin' puzzled, in a daze
I know it's confusing you
Daddy's always on the move
Mama's always on the news
I try to keep you sheltered from it
But somehow it seems, the harder that I try to do that
The more it backfires on me
All the things, growin' up
As daddy, daddy had to see
Daddy don't want you to see
But you see just as much as he did
We did not plan it to be this way,
Your mother and me
But things have got so bad between us
I don't see us ever being
Together ever again
Like we used to be like when we was teenagers
But then of course
Everything always happen for a reason
I guess it was never meant to be
But it's just something
We have no control over
And that's what destiny is
But no more worries
Rest your head and go to sleep
Maybe one day we'll wake up
And this will all just be a dream


[ Chorus ]

Now hush little baby don't u cry
Everything's gonna be all right
Stiffin' that upper lip up little lady I told ya
Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
We fear how we feel inside, it may seem a little crazy
Pretty baby but I promise, Mama's gon' be alright

[ Verse two ]

It's funny,
I remember back one year when daddy had no money
Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
And stuck 'em under the tree
And said some of 'em were from me,
Cuz daddy couldn't buy 'em
I'll never forget that Christmas
I sat up the whole night crying
cuz daddy felt like a bum,
See daddy had a job But his job
Was to keep the food on the table for you and mom
And at the time every house that we lived in
Either kept getting broken into and robbed or shot up on the block
And your mom, was saving money for you in a jar
Tryna to start a piggy bank for you
So you could go to college
Almost had a thousand dollars
Till someone broke in and stole it
And I know it hurt so bad it broke your mamma's heart
And it seemed like everything was just starting to fall apart
Mom and dad was arguing a lot
So mama moved back on to Chalmers in a flat
One bedroom apartment
And dad moved back to the other side of 8 mile on Novara
And that's when daddy went to California with his CD
And met Dr. Dre and flew you and Mama out to see me,
But daddy had to work, you and mama had to leave me,
Then you started seeing daddy on the TV
And mama didn't like it
And you and Lainnie were too young to understand
Papa was a rollin stone, mama developed a habit
And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it
I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it firsthand
Cuz all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
Now I'm sittin' in this empty house,
Just reminiscing Looking at your baby pictures it just tricks me out
To see how much you both have grown it's almost like you're sisters now
Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here
Lainnie I'm talking to you too daddy's still here
I like the sound of that, yeah
It's got a ring to it don't it
Shhh, mama's only gone for the moment


[ Chorus ]

Now hush little baby don't you cry
Everythings gonna be all right
Stiffin' that upper lip up little lady I told ya
Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
We fear how we feel inside, it may seem a little crazy
Pretty baby but I promise, mama's gon' be alright

[ End chorus]

And if you ask me to, daddy's gonna buy you a mocking bird
Ima' give you the world, Ima' buy a diamond ring for you,
Ima sing for you, I'll do anything for u to see u smile
And if that Mocking Bird don't sing and that ring don't shine
I'ma break that birdie's neck, I'll go back to the Jeweler
Who sold it to ya
And make him eat every carat
Don't fuck with dad.
haha

(Talking)
Aww, look at daddy's baby girl. It's daddy's baby, little sleepy head.
Yesterday I changed your diaper, wiped you and powdered you.
How did you get so big? Can't believe it, now you're two.
Hailie you're so precious, daddy's so proud of you.
SIT DOWN BITCH, YOU MOVE AGAIN I'LL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!

(Rapping)
Don't make me wake this baby, she don't need to see what I'm 'bout to do.
Quit crying bitch, why you always make me shout at you?
How could you, just leave me and love him out the blue.
Aww, what's the matter Kim, am i too loud for you?
Too bad bitch, you're gonna finally hear me out this time.
At first I'm like, aight, you wanna throw me out that's fine.
But not for him to take my place, are you outcha mind?
This couch, this TV, this whole house is mine!
How could you let him sleep in our bed?
Look at Kim, look at your husband now, I SAID LOOK AT HIM, he ain't so hot now is he?
little punk.

Kim: Why are you doing this?
Eminem: SHUT THE FUCK UP
Kim: You're drunk, you're never gonna get away with this
Eminem: You think I give a fuck? Come on, were going for a ride bitch.
Kim: NO!
Eminem: Sit up front
Kim: We can't just leave Hailie alone, what if she wakes up?
Eminem: We'll be right back, well I will, you'll be in the trunk.

Chorus:
So long, bitch you did me so wrong
I don't wanna go on,
living in this world without you.
So long, bitch you did me so wrong
I don't wanna go on,
living in this world without you.

You really fucked me Kim, you really did a number on me.
Never knew me cheatin' on you would come back to haunt me.
But we was kids then Kim, i was only 18
That was years ago, i thought we wiped the slate clean.
That's fucked up!

Kim: I love you.
Eminem: Oh god, my brain is racin'.
Kim: I love you.
Eminem: What are you doing, change the station, i hate this song.
Does this look like a big joke?
There's a four year old little boy laying dead with a slit throat in your
living room.
HA HA, what? You think I'm kidding you? You loved him didn't you?
Kim: NO!
Eminem: Bullshit you bitch, don't fucking lie to me.
What the fuck's this guys problem on the side of me?
Fuck you asshole, yeah, bite me.
Kim,
KIM! Why don't you like me?
You think i'm ugly don't you?
Kim: It's not
Eminem: No, you think i'm ugly
Kim: Baby
Eminem: Get the fuck away from me.
Don't touch me.
I hate you, i hate you, i swear to god i hate you.
Oh my god, i love you.
How the fuck could you do this to me?
Kim: I'm sorry.
Eminem: How the fuck could you do this to me?

(Chorus)

Eminem: Come on, get out
Kim: I can't, i'm scared.
Eminem: I said get out Bitch.
Kim: Let go of my hair! Please don't do this baby.
Please, i love you.
Look, we can just take Hailie and leave.
Eminem: FUCK you, you did this to us, you did it, it's your fault.
Oh my god, i'm crackin' up, get a grip MARSHALL.
Hey, remember that time we went to Brian's party?
And you were like, so drunk you threw up all over Archie?
That was funny wasn't it?
Kim: Yes
Eminem: THAT WAS FUNNY WASN'T IT?
Kim: YES!
Eminem: See it all makes sense doesn't it?
You and your husband have a fight,
one of you trys to grab a knife and during the struggle he accidentally get his adams apple sliced.
And while this is going on his son has woke up and he walks in, she panics and he gets his throat cut.
So now they're both dead and you slashed your own throat so now its double homicide,
and suicide, with no note.
I should've known better.
When you started to act weird, we could of, HEY, where you going, get back
here! You can't run from me Kim, it's just us, nobody else.
You're only making this harder on yourself.

HAHA, gotcha! Go ahead, yell
Here I'll scream with you,
AHH SOMEBODY HELP.
Don't you get it bitch?
No one can hear you, now shut the FUCK up and get what's coming to you.
You were supposed to love me.
Now bleed bitch, bleed!
BLEED BITCH BLEED!
BLEED!

(Chorus)

[Olivia harmonizing for 10 seconds]

[Chorus: Olivia]
We, we don't give a fuck about you
Your homey on the block can get it too
Y'all lil' motherfuckers ain't gang-ster, save your
crew, before I put a hit out on you
Before I let my niggaz come through
Y'all lil' motherfuckers ain't gang-ster, gang-ster

[50 Cent]
Yeah!
I come creepin through your hood in the dead of the night boy
It's good that you ain't scared to die cause you might boy
Nigga cross the line, and my wolves'll jump on you
The beef escalate, they'll be back to dump on you
They follow orders, I tell 'em to let off that pump at you
Before you snitch, yeah see I know what you chumps'll do
Sunny day, hot fudge, vanilla banana split
Four niggaz in a whip, AK banana clip
War time, frontline, nigga ride or run and hide
Everything alive dies, why ask why? Why cry
Man up, chump, worryin is for the weak
You could hold your own or get left for dead in the street

[Chorus]

[Tony Yayo]
Yeah, yeah
In the hood when I pop up, minked up and rocked up
Niggaz ice grill cause these O.G.'s is washed up
I got a left like, Winky Wright
My pinky bright, my bank card'll end your life
Niggaz scheme but they sweeter than, cookies'n'cream
Homey I got more blocks than Hakeem the Dream
That ain't taskforce money, that's real police
I got my ratchet in the alley with that fiend Denise
Cruise the streets, stuntin in that Maybach sixty-two
Nigga what my dope goin fo', 62, c'mon! A gram
By man, my plan's to expand
Try to jux and you hooked to catscan

[Chorus]

[Lloyd Banks]
Uhh, Banks
I got a crew of schitzos behind me, I give 'em the word
They'll wet your whole block up, like the tsunami
Try me, and your mommy'll be right in the lobby
And they'll be feedin you Jello, like you're Bill Cosby
Yeah everybody yellin, 'til the beef cook
Then somebody gets hit in the melon, then they tellin
Don't go tongue lashin wit Lloyd
Niggaz'll put stabs in your boy like Brad Pitt in Troy
Be shakin like a cutty, with his last bit of boy
And I'm calm cause there's bulletproof glass in the toy
Yeah I'm flashy as a fuck, mashed in with Buck
Windows up blowin big cause the stash in the truck, what?

[Chorus]

yo, I can't sing good
I feel like singin'
I wanna fuckin' sing
'Cuz I'm happy
Yeah, I'm happy
Ha Ha
I got my baby back
Yo, check it out


Some days I sit (sit), starin' out the window(dow)
Watchin' this world pass me by
Sometimes I think (think) there's nothin' to live for (for)
I almost break down and cry

Sometimes I think I'm crazy
I'm crazy, oh so crazy
Why am I here, am I just wastin' my time?

But then I see my baby
Suddenly I'm not crazy
It all makes sense when I look into her eyes (Oh no)

Chorus:

Sometimes it feels like the world's on my shoulders
Everyone's leanin' on me
'Cuz sometimes it feels like the world's almost over
But then she comes back to me


My baby girl (girl) (Hailie laughs) keeps gettin' older (der)
I watch her grow up with pride
People make jokes (jokes), 'cuz they don't understand me (me)
They just don't see my real side

I act like shit don't phaze me
Inside it drives me crazy
My insecurities could eat me alive

But then I see my baby
Suddenly I'm not crazy
It all makes sense when I look into her eyes (oh no)

Repeat Chorus



Man, if I could sing, I'd keep singin' this song to my daughter
If I could hit the notes, I'd blow somethin' as long as my father
To show her how I feel about her, how proud I am that I got 'er
God, I'm a daddy, I'm so glad that her mom didn't ABORT her

Now you prob'ly get this picture from my public persona
That I'm a pistol-packin' drug-addict who bags on his mama
But I wanna just take this time out to be perfectly honest
'Cuz there's a lot of shit I keep bottled that hurts deep inside o' ma soul
And just know that I grow colda the older I grow
This boulder on my shoulder gets heavy and harda to hold
And this load is like the weight of the world
And I think my neck is breakin'
Should I just give up
Or try to live up to these expectations?
Now look
I love my daughter more than life n' itself
But I got a wife that's determined to make my life livin' hell
But I handle it well, given the circumstances I'm dealt
So many chances, man, it's too bad, coulda had someone else
But the years that I've wasted is nothin' to the tears that I've tasted
So here's what I'm facin', 3 felonies, 6 years of probation
I've went to jail for this woman, I've been to bat for this woman
I've taken bats to people's backs, bent over backwards for this woman
Man, I shoulda seen it comin', what'd I stick my penis up in?
Woulda ripped the pre-nup up if I'd seen what she was fuckin'
But fuck it, it's over, there's no more reason to cry no more
I got my baby, maybe the only lady that I adore, Hailie
So sayonara, try tomorra, nice to know ya
Our baby's traveled back to the arms of her rightful owner
And suddenly it seems like my shoulder blades have just shifted
It's like the greatest gift you can get
The weight has been lifted

Chorus 2:
And now it don't feel like the world's on my shoulders
Everyone's leanin' on me
Cuz' my baby knows that her daddy's her soldier
Nothin' can take her from me

Outro - Spoken
Woo!
I told you I can't sing
Oh well, I tried
Hailie, remember when I said
If you ever need anything, daddy will be right there?
Well guess what, daddy's here
And I ain't goin' nowhere baby
I love you (kiss)

Betty Kresin, Eminem's grandmother from the maternal side , got married at the age of 14. She got six children from 3 different marriages. She first married Bob Nelson. She gave birth to her daughter Debbie in 1955.She accuses her first husband, Bob Nelson, of being verbally abusive. Both moved to Warren, Michigan, to be closer to Betty's stepmother .Despite the problems the couple esperienced, she gave Bob two more sons, Todd and Steven.They divorced in the early 60's and Betty came back to her hometown St Joseph, where she met Ron Gilpin, her second husband.She had two more children with him. One of them is Betti Schmitt (Eminem's aunt and Debbie's half sister), who is still in touch and in good terms with Eminem. Ron Gilpin was an alcoholic who used to beat up his whole family. Violence was part of their daily life. Ron left his family in 1968.Dramas surrounded Betty's family. In 1991, Todd Nelson killed his brother-in-law, Mike Harris in self defense case. He was sentenced to jail for 8 years.Betty 's sixth child from a third marriage, Ronnie Polkingharn , was Eminem's uncle and closest friend. He committed suicide in 1991.

Eminem grew up for a while at his grandmom's home. She talks about his harsh conditions of living in Detroit :

« It was a poor school and they wanted his shoes. He was one of the only white children going to this segregated school. And one time they took the shoes off his feet and he had to come home in a snowstorm with no shoes on. But the story people keep asking me - "he was unconscious and almost died and all these doctors...", now I know nothing about this and I'm his grandmother. »

People should think twice before calling Marshall a racist.

Betty was angry with Marshall because he never attended to Ronnie's funeral. In fact, Marshall went depressive and swallowed a bottle of Tylenol and survived to another suicide attempt. He was unable to go to Ronnie's funeral, his pain was too immense.But Betty didn't know what happened during this period.


"I was kind of bitter about him writing about my dead son, because the last five years of my deceased boy, Marshall had not even seen him. Marshall - Eminem - and my son Ronnie were very close. He idolised Ronnie and Ronnie loved him. He never even came to Ronnie's funeral and he has never put the first flower on Ronnie's grave. He doesn't do anything - he won't go near the grave. The chain that Marshall wears around his neck, the dog-tag - that was Ronnie's. I gave him the dog-tag, he makes duplicates, he sells them now, and that really broke my heart because this is something sacred to me that I gave the boy. If my son could speak to you today from the grave he would say, "Marshall stop some of the garbage, make up with your family, life's too short"."

Marshall had a good relationship to his granny until he wanted to use Ronnie's voice on a tape. He intented to do this as a tribute to his deceased uncle, but Betty thought he was disrespectful towards her son. In 2002 , both reconciled. Betty Kresin is currently writing a book on her grandson which shall be entitled « The Tie That Binds ».

Betty says she's proud of her grandson and that she stands on his side.